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1437 – Battle of Tangier, attempt by a Portuguese expeditionary force to seize the citadel of Tangier, and their subsequent defeat by the armies of the Marinid sultanate . 1471 – Portuguese of Tangier rule (1471–1661) begins, under Afonso V of Portugal. [3] [4] [2] 1580 - Spain in power. [4] 1656 - Portugal in power again. [4]
According to eyewitness Frei João Álvares, Henry launched the first assault on Tangier on the very day he arrived, [52] but chronicler Ruy de Pina reports the first assault was not launched until a week later. [53] (For this article, the dating and events largely follows Pina's account. The alternative timeline of Álvares will be summarized ...
Leonardo de Ferrari's plan of the Portuguese fortifications at Tangier, c. 1655. The Wattasids assaulted Tangier in 1508, 1511, and 1515 but without success.. In 1508, future Portuguese of India Duarte de Menezes succeeded his father as captain of Tangier, a function he had already been effectively performing in his father's name since 1507. [9]
Click through to see depictions of Jesus throughout history: The discovery came after researchers evaluated drawings found in various archaeological sites in Israel.
The date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth is not stated in the gospels or in any secular text, but most scholars assume a date of birth between 6 BC and 4 BC. [1] Two main methods have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one based on the accounts of his birth in the gospels with reference to King Herod's reign, and another based on subtracting his stated age of "about 30 years ...
View over the Bay of Tangier is a 1912 oil on canvas painting by Henri Matisse, showing Tangier and its port on the Bay of Tangier. It was left to the Museum of Grenoble by Marcel Sembat and Georgette Agutte in 1923 , and still hangs there.
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The cult group gathered at an 800-acre site in Shakahola forest, Malindi, where Mackenzie “told his followers to starve themselves in order to ‘meet Jesus,’” police said.